Trove

Trion Worlds' Answer To Minecraft

Trion Worlds is best known for its MMOs Defiance and Rift, but the studio has just announced a new project that may appeal to fans of the visual style seen in Minecraft. Trove is described as a “free-to-play online adventure RPG,” and presents a dynamically generated game world mixed with handcrafted environments and levels.

Players are meant to play a game in a given generated world for a time, and then move on and play in a new version of the world that might be very different. Trove encourages construction, exploration, and destructible environments.

The developers of Trove hope to distinguish their new project from Minecraft both because it is free-to-play, but also because they want to have a deeper involvement from their community in the development of the game and its structure. Alpha sign-ups are available now at the game's official site.

Take a look at the new trailer, and share your thoughts in the comments. What do you think of Trove? Any interest in participating in the alpha?

Wait a cotton picking minute...
THIS IS CUBE WORLD!!!!
Ahem, seriously though, this looks exactly like Cubeworld, right down to the terrain generation - the only difference is that you can build stuff in the world.

This looks WAY too similar to Minecraft. How can they claim community involvement in development sets them apart? Minecraft does that already. Horses were created by a modder before they were officially part of the game.

This looks like Minecraft with all textures taken out and replaced with solid colors and maybe a slight gradient. The character models are atrocious. It seems like a blatant rip off of Minecraft, only instead of delivering free content, they'll have an item store -- which I detest.

I like Minecraft, but I gotta say the combat and the enemy characters look pretty good in this one. I don't know if I'll ever play this game, but I hope Minecraft does something to enchance combat and enemies. new kinds of physics would be nice. Heck, Why not just make a Minecraft 2 and make everything better?